I had the same problem with my Thinkpad 310ED with this Micro Muppy until I did some workarounds with "xwin" as Mark recommends. I am working on getting 800x600x8 to work with Micro Muppy but it is taking some work as the 310ED does not play as well with Xvesa as it does with the bigger Xorg. Somebody provided me with a trick that allows the use of a 800x595x16 resolution on the 310ED with Linux which tests the limits of the 1MB VRAM but would be especially close to 800x600x16 on this old laptop. I will let you know if I can get it to work!

Sorry for the late follow-up: The trick I proposed above did not work. The 310ED simply does not like Xvesa. I started hacking an Xorg into the MicroMuppy002 and made some progress but had to give up due to a lack of time to finish it.

I have an old Panasonic CF-41 MKiii laptop and it sure would be neat to get
Puppy to run on it.

It does not appear to be capable of booting from CD (and the BIOS is seriously
dumbed-down) so I will have to use the Floppy-to-CD boot workaround._________________Thanks! DavidHome page: http://nevils-station.comDon't googleSearch!http://duckduckgo.com
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Hi Edoc,
Noticed your post about your laptop not having a CD boot option in bios. I have worked on a lot of old laptops and desktops with the same problem. Here is a solution. Download the free boot manager program "Smart Boot Manager", just Google, its on Sourceforge. In addition to being a really useful multi boot manager, it uses its own boot stack that allows it to boot the machine from an internal cdrom drive. I used it this week on two old Thinkpad 760's. Ranish Partiton Manager and SBM are my two main tools for setting up drives, they both fit easily on a dos boot floppy.

I've got a few ol' laps that I could setup at 32 (or 16) megs a ram (upgraded to 80 now, might check it out, sticks were cheap at ~ 10 -20 bucks a pop) to see what happens. They have p150 & p200mmx. What u have?

Tried out a buncha small & early variants of pup with 32 megs a ram & got to a start screen on some but barely ran at that point (loong story..). Not sure if I managed to get a swap partition on the hd at the time (with 32 megs a ram)..but I can go back now.

If you can add some ram, it's a whole new world. Pup 98 runs great (but have to have win 98 installed) and or opens up all kinda possibilities. I have 2.17.1 running good live cd save file to HD on the IBM (p150) with 80 megs a ram, 160 megs swap partition & boot it with a pup wake floppy.

Had a look at that SBM but havent sorted out makin a floppy. Dunno which one to dwld - tar, gz or what to do with it & think there's one that can be made in win?

WiZard wrote:

Hi Edoc,
Noticed your post about your laptop not having a CD boot option in bios. I have worked on a lot of old laptops and desktops with the same problem. Here is a solution. Download the free boot manager program "Smart Boot Manager", just Google, its on Sourceforge. In addition to being a really useful multi boot manager, it uses its own boot stack that allows it to boot the machine from an internal cdrom drive. I used it this week on two old Thinkpad 760's. Ranish Partiton Manager and SBM are my two main tools for setting up drives, they both fit easily on a dos boot floppy.